Today, the licensing sub committee will take place today with longer hours for the Varsity in Roath and a new shisha venue on City Road on the agenda. Find out more here.

There'll also be a Strictly Golden Oldies tea dance at lunchtime today at St David's Hall. Enjoy two hours of dancing and a cup of tea and a Welsh cake. Find out more here.

Does Butetown want to cross the tracks? The Butetown Assembly will take place at 7pm at the old Natwest bank on Bute Street, the event is partly inspired by the Soul Exchange production put on by National Theatre Wales.

The evening will consist of a number of lively discussions or debates, with specially commissioned performances by Steve Austin, Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan, Ali Goolyad, Shekira Johnson, Faisal Kash and Natalie Paisey. With sambusa, shaah, and local artists.

What's on this weekend? Tell us about your event or something you're attending in comments below.

What's making Cardiff tick today?

Campaigners fighting to save the building formally Hawthorn Primary School have put in a bid to Cardiff council on how they would use the site as a part-community facility. Read the report here.

The lovely people at the Academi have got in touch to tell us about a series of four free writing workshops – starting next Tuesday with an evening looking at 'writing for blogs' – check out the info here.

Did you notice us tweeting about the Twitter account we spotted @IhateCardiff? Journal of Plastik did, and summarised the online debate with a handy diagram. IhateCardiff is gauging people's views to find out how the city can be improved. Read more here.

A massive puddle in Grangetown is causing one resident problems whenever it rains, posted on Fix My Street here. Lee Smith snaps some of the overflowing rivers in the city on his blog.

Prospective assembly candidate for Cardiff south and Penarth Vaughan Gething writes this guest blog for Cardiff east about this week's decision taken by Cardiff council to improve the inspectors report into Rumney Recreation Ground.

Cardiff council's controversial shake-up of its home care services has come under increased scrutiny after it was revealed it paid nearly £400,000 to consultants to develop its new strategy. Read the report on WalesOnline here.

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